For the
testing we closed every running program by making a clean Windows Boot.
The only programs that were running during the tests were Explorer &
Systray. By doing so we’re sure that performance would remain
unaffected.

Quake
III Arena Test

As shown in this test the 3D
Prophet II Ultra is really the most powerful 3D card out on the market
today. Its performance leaves the Voodoo 5 5500 in the dust and even
surpasses the Creative GeForce II GTS 32MB. However the gain in terms of
performance comparing to the GeForce II GTS is slim (only 15%).

This test uses 32 bit color
and is intended to show that when using the 3D Prophet II Ultra instead
of a 3 Prophet II Ultra 64Mb or Creative GeForce II GTS you’ll really
gain a lot of performance.

ZDNet
WinBench 2000

ZDNet has imposed its
benchmarking tools as the worldwide standard to test PCs and PC devices.
So we tested the Hercules 3D Prophet Ultra II with the ZD Winbench 2000
1.0 set of tools and we obtain the following results. Be warn that the
WinBench 2000 runs 123 tests that are used to determine the quality and
the performance of the 3D card. Note that the WinBench 2000 test program
now supports the Transform & Lighting features of DirectX 7 and
tested it.

As shown by this test the 3D Prophet II Ultra
largely surpasses the Creative GeForce II GTS and Voodoo 5 5500 board
performances. In terms of quality the card passed all the tests
successfully as it supports a wide variety of 3D features.

Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2000b test

Microsoft Flight Simulator
2000 is probably one of the highest 3D resource demanding game out on
the market today. In consequence we decided to test the Hercules 3D
Prophet II Ultra with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 (running the
latest patch b).

As shown by the results of
this test the performance gains are really few when comparing the 3D
Prophet II Ultra to the competing 3D cards. However one of the
enhancements for this card compared to other cards is the whole fluidity
of the games when switching between many views when flying.

Unreal
Tournament

As
you have seen there’s no major difference between the three 3D boards
even if the Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra continues to excel. Note that
with the 1600*1200 16bit test the Voodoo 5 5500 obtains the fewest
results since the drivers we used are bugged. Unreal Tournament
intensively uses the core CPU and it explains why there’s practically
no difference except in high-resolution mode where the 3D Prophet II
Ultra is a top-notch card.

Full
Scene Anti-Aliasing

To test
the FSAA performance of the 3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb we ran once again
the Quake III Arena test and we get these results:

When one activates Full Scene Anti Aliasing,
Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra remains at the head.However, this advantage is more than relative.Indeed, since the FSAA 2x of Voodoo5 is almost of the same
quality than the 4x used by GeForce 2 enabled cards, we can almost say
that Voodoo5 and 3D Prophet II Ultra are worth with regard to the
performance (pure performances and quality) of the FSAA, with an
advantage for the FSAA to Voodoo5 with regard to compatibility.

Game
Tests

We tested the 3D Prophet II
Ultra 64MB board with many recent games and for all of them we get a
marvelous display quality: 3D scenes are sharp, brighter, clear giving
life to our games. Sure the Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB also bring
to this games more fluidity especially for Flight Simulator 2000 and
Starlancer. The games we tested the board with were:

Microsoft
Midtown Madness II

Microsoft
Crimson Skies

Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2000

Microsoft
Combat Flight Simulator 2

Microsoft
Starlancer

Quake
III Arena

Unreal
Tournament

Need
for Speed III, IV, V

and
more!

The
board shown an excellent compatibility with games and we didn’t
encounter any bugs caused by the card as it can occurs with some other
3D cards.